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Submitted by ctv_en_8 on Tue, 10/07/2008 - 10:30
A powerful earthquake killed at least 72 people in Kyrgyzstan and leveled a village in the remote mountains of the Central Asian state, the health ministry said on October 6.

The earthquake, measuring 6.3 on the Richter Scale, jolted an area between Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - Central Asia's most densely populated area.

 

Worst affected were the high-altitude villages of south Kyrgyzstan where one settlement was destroyed completely and the fate of others remains unclear.

 

"The total number of dead is now 72," Deputy Health Minister Madamin Karatayev said. This includs 30 children, 11 students, 12 pensioners and 19 adults, he said, adding that most of the houses in the Nura village on Kyrgyzstan's border with China had been destroyed completely.

 

Meanwhile, on the same day, a powerful earthquake killed at least nine people in Tibet, state media reported, revising down the earlier estimated death toll of at least 30.

 

The quake measured 6.6 on the Richter scale with its epicentre around 80 km west of the regional capital Lhasa. The victims were in the Gedar township of Damxung County, near the epicenter, reported the official Xinhua news agency.

Reuters-VOV

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